Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it up. In November 2019, a 20-person team working in Niger collected that crest ...

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among ...

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among the largest meat-eating dinosaurs.

Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...

The horned species, named Spinosaurus mirabilis, had scimitar-shaped crests on the back that were sheathed in keratin. The ...

By Will Dunham Feb 19 (Reuters) - It was not an easy task for a team of dinosaur-hunting scientists to reach the remote site ...

Scientists were “astonished” to find a new species of Spinosaurus with a scimitar-shaped bony crest—uncovered in the Sahara ...

Millions of years in the making, a major discovery is turning heads around the globe. A paleontologist from the University of Chicago has uncovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara Desert.